Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269647 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | The morphology of a cancer refers to the histological classification of the cancer tissue (histopathological type) and a description of the course of development that a tumour is likely to take: benign or malignant (behaviour). The designation is based on a microscopic diagnosis of morphology by the pathologist (Esteban, Whelan, Laudico & Parkin 1995). |